$1 million Powerball ticket sold in Burlington

By Times-News

Published: Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 11:50 AM.

Though many of her regular customers have inquired about the winner, Chambers said no one has tried to cash it in. To claim the $1 million, the winning ticketholder will have to go to N.C. Education Lottery headquarters in
Raleigh
.

“They have 180 days to claim,” said
Denton
. “Sometimes they come right in, sometimes they wait a little while.”

“Whoever has that winning ticket, they beat the odds of 1 in 5 million,” he said. “So that’s pretty good luck.”

Up until this point,
Denton
said seven people from
Alamance
County
have won $1 million playing the N.C. Education lottery, and two have specifically won $1 million playing Powerball. So if Wednesday’s winner is, in fact, from
Alamance
County
, he or she will be the eighth lottery winner and third Powerball winner from the county.

In Wednesday’s Powerball drawing, tickets sold in
Arizona
and
Missouri
matched the winning jackpot numbers to split the $587.5 million jackpot. In
North Carolina
, there were 269,916 winning tickets totaling $4.8 million in prizes for that drawing alone.

Chambers said she hopes the winner is one of her regulars, who lives locally. She said, “Somebody’s going to be a happy camper.”

It’s always a gamble when playing the lottery, but buying a Powerball ticket in Burlington paid off – to the tune of $1 million.

It’s still a mystery who purchased a winning $1 million ticket from the Super Kmart Express on Huffman Mill Road in Burlington, but if that person actually lives in AlamanceCounty, he or she will be the third local Powerball player to win $1 million.

Three tickets worth $1 million in Wednesday’s drawing were purchased in North Carolina, and as of Thursday, Burlington’s winner had yet to claim the prize.

The local winning ticket was purchased at the Super Kmart Express, which has been Kmart’s highest seller of lottery tickets in North Carolina over the past two years, according to Van Denton, director of communications for the N.C. Education Lottery.

The two other $1 million tickets were purchased from the Circle K on Selwyn Avenue in Charlotte and the Kangaroo Express on U.S. 258 in Kinston.

Pam Chambers, assistant manager of the Super Kmart Express, said the store was “a-rocking and a-rolling” Wednesday, but the winning ticket could have been purchased at any time between Sunday and Wednesday.

Though many of her regular customers have inquired about the winner, Chambers said no one has tried to cash it in. To claim the $1 million, the winning ticketholder will have to go to N.C. Education Lottery headquarters in Raleigh.

“They have 180 days to claim,” said Denton. “Sometimes they come right in, sometimes they wait a little while.”

“Whoever has that winning ticket, they beat the odds of 1 in 5 million,” he said. “So that’s pretty good luck.”

Up until this point, Denton said seven people from AlamanceCounty have won $1 million playing the N.C. Education lottery, and two have specifically won $1 million playing Powerball. So if Wednesday’s winner is, in fact, from AlamanceCounty, he or she will be the eighth lottery winner and third Powerball winner from the county.

In Wednesday’s Powerball drawing, tickets sold inArizonaand Missourimatched the winning jackpot numbers to split the $587.5 million jackpot. InNorth Carolina, there were 269,916 winning tickets totaling $4.8 million in prizes for that drawing alone.

Chambers said she hopes the winner is one of her regulars, who lives locally. She said, “Somebody’s going to be a happy camper.”